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The Rev. Hugh Davies, the friend of Pennant, has no- 

 ticed that a flock visited Anglesey, of which four or five were 

 shot. Mr. Couch, in his Cornish Fauna, says that several 

 specimens of the Ibis have occurred in Cornwall. Besides 

 three formerly killed in Devonshire as recorded by Montagu, 

 three others are mentioned by Dr. Edward Moore, and one 

 by Mr. Bellamy; this last was obtained in October 1835 at 

 Brideston in South Devon. I heard of one that Avas killed 

 in Poole Harbour in October 1839 from the Earl of Malmes- 

 bury, and also from J. C. Austin, Esq. of Ensbury near 

 Wimbourn. Montaofu mentions one that was killed in 

 Berkshire ; another was killed atWhitmore pond, near Guild- 

 ford, in March 1833, and J. C. Hurst, Esq. of Dartford, sent 

 me notice in 1837 of a specimen in his own collection that 

 had been shot on the bank of a fish-pond in that neighbour- 

 hood. Many specimens have been obtained in Norfolk. 

 The Rev. Richard Lubbock remarks that the Ibis was pro- 

 bably fifty years back more common in the neighbourhood 

 of Lynn, Yarmouth, &c. : the old gunners used to talk of 

 having, in their youth, often seen small parties of what they 

 called " Black Curlews." Mr. Selby mentions one example, 

 a young bird, now preserved in his own collection, that was 

 obtained on the Coquet near Rothbury, in the autumn of 

 1820 : from this specimen the representation of the Ibis 

 published in some of the later editions of Bewick's British 

 Birds was taken. Still further north, Muller includes the 

 Ibis as a bird of Denmark. M. Nilsson says it sometimes 

 visits Sweden, but very rarely, and it has appeared on some 

 of the islands of the Baltic. Wagler, in his Si/stema Avium, 

 page 182, enumerates Iceland among the northern localities 



of Liverpool, which is believed to be of the time of King John, the bird has the 

 appearance of a Dove with a sprig of olive. For a drawing of this ancient 

 seal, with various other particulars, and also for a notice of the recent occur- 

 rence of an Ibis near the town of Fleetwood, on the river Wyre, I am indebted 

 to the kindness of John Skaife, Esq. of Blackburn. 



